Models of public/private cleavage in sub-national Spanish television

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Ángel Badillo Matos

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The aim of this paper is to review the status of the diverse forms of sub-national television broadcasting in Spain, once the regional governments have finished the contests for local, regional and island licenses. Assuming deregulation and decentralization as the core forces of recent transformations in Spanish broadcasting, the paper examines the impact of digital terrestrial television (DTT) regulation on the so-called ‘proximity’ media. In each autonomous community (of the 17 created in Spain after the democratic Constitution of 1978), the status of the audiovisual operators is studied taken into account its territorial coverage (local, region, province or island) and the institutional typology (public, private, community media). Four models of public/private cleavage emerge from this systematic review of national and regional public policies on Spanish subnational television broadcasting: public predominant, private predominant, fragmented pluralist and concentrated pluralist.

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Badillo Matos, Ángel. (2011). Models of public/private cleavage in sub-national Spanish television. AdComunica, 63–81. https://doi.org/10.6035/2174-0992.2011.1.6
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